Bhagavatapurana 11.28.20

11.28.20

vijñānam etat triy-avastham aṅga guṇa-trayaṃ kāraṇa-karya-kartṛ /
samanvayena vyatirekataś ca yenaiva turyeṇa tad eva satyam //

20. V. Beloved Uddhava! This Vignana is connected with three states, of the three gunas which constitute (1) the senses and organs, (2) the body and (3) Ahankara, the cause of attachments. This exists or ceases to exist as the fourth principle is or is not present; and that principle alone is real and that is pure Atman.

D. Here also is shown that Hari is the absolutely independent Supreme Being.

Beloved Uddhava! This, i. e., Brahman is Vignana (wisdom untouched by defects), leads Jivas to the three different goals (Moksha, Samsara and hell); by the force of the will of the omniscient Lord who is *the fourth*, *i. e.*, beyond the sphere of the sleep and other states, the three gunas and all other things do or do not come into existence; only that pure Supreme Being exists eternally independent, is of infinite wisdom, is the Almighty Ruler (the three gunas, the material cause of Mahat Ahankara and other creations, the body and the like, and the efficient causes as Time, Karma, etc.